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63 Max Watters by Gary Catalano It is a river with at least three sources. One rises in the hills just behind Morisse!. flows in a north-westerly direction through the valley of Wollombi, then crosses the plains around Broke before joining the main course of the river, a lillie to thewestofSinglelOn. Another rises in the main spine of the early European settlers. Picture that town as the centre of a circle whose radius is sixtyfive kilometres. and sweep the following IOwns and settlements into your net: Kars Spring, Bunnan, Sandy Hollow, Baerami, Martindale, Jerrys Pla ins, Ravenswonh. Cambenvell, uddell. HeWen, McCully's Gap, Great Dividing Range just to the east of the Rouchel Brook, Belltrees. and Moonan Flat. old mining town ofGulgong, winds across the plain on which Merriwa is situated, then joins th e main course just to the south of Denman. Its third and prime one is again high in the range. though this time in thai cold. chilly spur that culminates in Barrington Tops. After flowing through Ellerston, through Moonan Flat and through Belltrees, it empties itself into what is now the Glenbawn Dam. just to the east of Scone. The As with names, so with occupations. Like most areas of Australia , it was the pasIOralists who opened up this part of the Hunter and th e depth of their appreciation of the landscape is shown by the fact that the muscle of water that escapes from there flows back roads which follow their tracks cling down through Aberdeen and Muswellbrook and, on receiving the waters of its MAXWATIERS UNTHLEDSKETCH 1970 Pencil lind cra)'(>'l en paper 38cm_28cm Possesso;n o!lheal1'SI l'hoIograph b~ John Delacour firmly to the COlltours of the land. disturbing it as lillIe as possible. Much of the area is second source, swings round and meanders still given over to pastoral acti vities but the slowly to the sea. Although not long in length, it is an old river in an old and noble their livelihood in other pursuits- killing landscape. If you exclude the towns of Maitland grapes in the vineyards which dot the area and still fewer ease delicately boned foals from the wombs of thoroughbred mares bulk of the population here naturally earn and gutt ing beasts in the slaughler-house at and Cessnock - and, of course, the coastal city coastal menopolis in the pit at Muswellbrook of Ncwcastle - then the largest town in the Hunter'S system is that of Muswellbrook, a selliement which received its name because the fresh-water mussels found in the Aberdeen, or feeding the energy-hungry or the power-station at Liddell. A few grow river there were pronounced delicious by the in the studs of Scone and Segenhoe. Put their names on your tongue and feel the way in which the legacie-s of squaller and selector mingle with that of the original inhabitants: Martindale. Sandy Hollow, Moonan .. Moonan Flat.